When Apple announced their iPod Video a few months ago, I was driving to work. As soon as I arrived I got on GoDaddy.com and did a quick search for as many domain name derivatives of Video Ipod that I could find. I ended up registering VideoIpodAccessories.com. Since then, I’ve let the domain sit as a lonely “parked” page at GoDaddy.com.
However, I recently got a tip that GoDaddy puts sponsored links (AdSense) on the parked page in hopes that when people type in my domain name, they can make some money off the ads. Hmm…smart. I never thought that anyone might just type the domain name in. How naive I am.
Anyway, I took advantage of President’s Day and threw together a web site that serves up ads from Amazon.com for iPod Accessories (using Amazon’s Web Services–cool). I’m not expecting to make much money, but I am mostly curious about how much “type-in” traffic I might get. I’ll report on it later.